Purim Finger Puppets

The characters from left to right:
King Xeres, Queen Vashti with her mirror, Mordecai, Bad Haman and Queen Esther.

Aren't these a scream? The women's Bible study that I am in, is studying the book of Esther with the Beth Moore workbook and DVD's. It is an excellent study! I'm learning a lot of new things about the story.
Well, on Tuesday, I went with some of our 8th grade students to visit the Museum of Tolerance in LA. It's much like the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Because it's a Jewish museum, they had a lovely display about Purim (since it began on Tuesday). I couldn't resist buying these finger puppets.
The Jews celebrate the Feast of Purim every spring to commemorate God's deliverance of the Jews through Queen Esther. On the card the puppets came on, is a brief synopsis of each character. For Queen Vashti, they say that she refused to go before King Xeres because she had grown a tail and had pimples! I've sure never seen that part in the Bible story! :-)
I will save these in my "Grandma Box" for future story telling opportunities.